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G. BODEN. SAFETY PIN.

1%. 553,049. Patented Jan. 14, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

iEORGE BODEN, OF 'WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE OAK- VILLECOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,049, dated January14, 1896.

Application filed November 8, 1893. Serial No. 490,337. (No model.)

To all 1072,0127, it play concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE BODEN, of 7aterbury,in the county of New Havenand State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Safety-Pins; and I do hereby declare the followingspecification,taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,forming apart of the same, to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof.

In the ordinary form of safety-pin, in which the wire is coiled to forma spring at that end of the pin which is opposite to the pin-point andits shield, there is great liability of the fabric working between orbecoming entangled in the coils of the spring.

The object of the present invention is to provide asafety-pin in whichthis liability will be prevented.

To that end the invention consists in a safety-pin, the coiled-springend of which is provided with a guard arranged and applied ashereinafter described.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represents a safety-pin providedwith a guard at its coiled-spring end. Fig. 2 is a transverse section,upon an enlarged scale, on the line 33 9:, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents theflat blank from which the guard is formed. Fig. i represents said blankafter it has been cupped preparatory to being applied to the coiled endof the pin. Figs. 5, U, 7, and 8 are corre spondin g Views in which aslightly different form of blank and guard are represented. Figs. 9, 1Q,11, and 12 are corresponding views showing a modified form of guard anda modified means for holding the guard in place, and Fig. 13 is an underview of Fig. 9.

The safety-pin A is composed as usual of two legs a, b, with theintermediate portion 0 coiled to form a spring, the leg (I. being thefree or pin portion, while to the other legb is secured a shield B asusual. To the coiledspring end of the pin is applied a guard cl. In allcases this guard cl is applied cxteriorly, or outside of the coil, asshown in Figs. 1, 5, and

,9, and so as to inclose or embrace the wires cupped blank is thenplaced over the coiled end of the spring and its free edges bent inwardto inclose the wires of the coiled spring, as shown in Fig. 2. As willbe seen, the guard (51, when thus applied, not only connects the twowires of the coil, but bridges over the space between the pin-wire andthe coiled portion, and thus prevents the fabric from working between orbeing caught between said two wires.

The form of blank shown in Figs. 7 and 8 is provided with projections d,which said projections when the guard is secured in place will serve tomore or less fill the interior of the coil, as shown in Fig. 5, therebygiving a somewhat different finish or appearance to the end of the pin.It will be observed that with both forms of guard shown in Figs. 1 and5, respectively, the guard when secured in place upon the coiled end ofthe pin occupies substantially a complete half -circle, or, in otherwords, embraces substantially one-half of the coiled portion of the pin.By this arrangement the guard is held securely in the desired positionupon the coil and is prevented from being accidentally displaced orchanged in position, for the reason that any attempt to turn the guardin one direction will be resisted by the end of the guard abuttingagainst the wires of the coiland consequently thatportion of theguardviz. one end thereof, which bars the entrance of the fabric betweenthe wires of the coilwill always be held in the proper position toperform the required function.

Inthe modified form of guard shown in Figs. 5) to 13, inclusive, theguard is provided with a hole or perforation d through which thepin-wire or leg a. is passed when the guard is applied to the coil. Bythis arrangement the guard is held in proper position and is preventedfrom being turned or moved around the coil by reason of the fact thatsaid guard is thus threaded upon said pin-wire. Vith this constructionand arrangement of guard, therefore, the guard may, if desired, be madeshorter and so as to occupy less than a halt circle when in place uponthe coiled end of the pin, as shown in Fig. 9.

It will be seen that the guard is in all cases applied exteriorly to thecoil, and is bent around the wires composing the coil, so as to bringthe edges of the guard and the seam or space between'them upon theinside of the coil, leaving the outside or exposed portion of the guardwith a smooth unbroken surface. Such guard so applied, therefore, notonly serves the primary purpose of bridging across the space between thetwo wires of the coil and thus effectively preventing the entrance ofthe fabric between said wires, but it also serves to make a neat,attractive and desirable finish to the coiled end of the pin.

"What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. A safety pin having a coiled portion to form a spring, and providedwith the guard (1 applied exteriorly to the outer end of said coiledportion, and with its free edges bent inward to embrace the two wirescomposing the double portion of said coil and bring said edges and theseam or space between them upon the inside of the coil, substantially asdescribed.

2. A safety pin having a coiled portion to form a spring, and providedwith the guard d applied exteriorly to the outer end of said coiledportion, and with its free edges bent inward to embrace the two wirescomposing the double portion of said coil for a distance ofsubstantially a half circle, and bring said edges and the seam or spacebetween them upon the inside of the coil, substantially as described.

GEORGE BODEX.

\Vitnesses:

WALTER PLACE, A. A. STONE.

